Timur Bekmambetov Articles

Angelina Jolie, Wanted Wanted screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, who are also responsible for 2 Fast 2 Furious, 3:10 to Yuma, and the upcoming The Double (which Brandt also directed), have been hired by Universal to write Wanted 2. Haas mentioned the news in a brief tweet earlier today. At TheWrap, Haas added that "we just always loved the Wanted world and loved working [...]

  Roland Emmerich's The Zone, a low-budget sci-fier that was to have been directed by the man responsible for megabudgeted fare such as Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012 has been shut down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The $5m, docu-style, "lost footage found" sci-fier may have been killed by The Weinstein Company's recent acquisition of Brian Miller's screenplay Apollo 18, another "lost [...]

  Brian Miller's sci-fi thriller Apollo 18, winner of the inaugural Astana (Kazakhstan) International Action Film Festival screenplay competition founded by Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov, has been acquired by The Weinstein Company. Trevor Cawood, probably best known as a visual-effects technician on The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, is set to direct the project. (Cawood also directed the short Terminus in 2007.) Bekmambetov and [...]

Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson in David Slade's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Kristen Stewart may [italicized] be replacing Angelina Jolie if [italicized] there's a sequel to Timur Bekmambetov's box-office hit Wanted, which paired Jolie with James McAvoy. At least that's what E! Online has to say. As per the report, Stewart would play "a young, ass-kicking assassin in the Fraternity." Since her Joan Jett opposite Dakota [...]